Senior Developer Advocate

Description

The company, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — the company’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

For all of us at the company, community matters. Our users and contributors have helped to ensure that the company Stack (including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) are more than just code — they are open source projects that people love to use, and love to talk about! As our Senior Developer Advocate you will champion our the company community.

What You Will Be Doing

Are you keen on sharing technology with the world and supporting our global user-base? Do you feel at home connecting with community members across the globe: in person, on blogs, in forums, via social channels, and at events? Is speaking publicly at local meetups your jam? Are you passionate about the company Stack? If so this might just be your dream job.

Your activities as a Senior Developer Advocate at the company would include:

Speaking publicly at in-person and virtual conferences, meetups and other events.

Answering questions from developers on Discuss (our forum), Slack and other forums.

Building and sharing content, including social media posts, in-depth blog posts, example code, demos, tutorials and videos on the company's site or our YouTube channel.

Contributing code on GitHub both to the company and external repositories.

Providing feedback from the developer community to our engineering teams to improve the company products.

For this role, you will be our Senior Developer Advocate based in NYC, New York . You will keep up-to-date on the latest in search and AI, understand and advocate the company Stack use cases, and be embedded in the developer community.

What You Bring

Deep technical background and experience in an engineering role, such as software engineering.

Demonstrated ability to create compelling content about technology — including speaking, writing, and demoing.

Empathy for the community to help them solve their issues, provide internal feedback to make the company’s products better, and fix problems where possible.

Comfortable working with a highly distributed team.

A devoted individual with experience working as a contributor in self-organizing teams.

Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The company believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in the company's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$113,100 - $178,900 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$135,900 - $215,100 USD

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, the company is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year

Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email the company's site . We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

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